Snowy Mountains Travel Guide
Well preserved hut
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Well preserved hut
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The inside story
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There are some informative signs at the...
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Note the old style chimney
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Old newspapers adorn the walls
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Easy slopes, lovely trees, nice people, great party atmosphere, some excellent walks
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Winter - Perisher Valley
jellibb Says:
If you are looking for the best skiing and snowboarding in NSW - Perisher tops the list.If you are a skiier or boarder lucky enough to get a decent snowfall (which you have a very good chance of), then you will be in heaven (albeit a very cold...
Kiandra continued
iandsmith Says:
People came from all over Australia and what had once been isolated grazing country became a boom town. Several thousand endured the winter snows and freezing temperatures. They were ill-prepared and many were forced to see out the winter in canvas tents. However the rewards...
Crackenback Cottage: Cozy Cottage
We went here for afternoon tea and for dinner...and it was a highlight of the trip.
This is a cozy cottage...with a big deck for the summertime...and 2 massive fireplaces for the winter. They have endless amounts of schapps and excellent wine.
For afternoon tea...they had yummy cheeses and wine...and for dinner...We were impressed by the king island eye fillet, wine and vegies. It was a great experience.
There is even a maze for the kids...or at nighttime...after a few shots of schnapps...you can put on a headlight and go for a wander around yourself.
Written Jun 12, 2006
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To avoid using wheel chains, use the Ski Tube
Joseph69 Says:
From Jindabyne, follow the Thredbo signs and then take the Ski Tube turn-off. Park your car, then hop onto the Ski Tube. I personally prefer to drive to the ski resorts as I can leave things inside the car, but we took the ski tube. The combined cost of the ski tube and lift...
Watch out roos skiing!!
martin_nl Says:
We noticed a couple of these traffic signs to watch out for roos skiing the slopes of the mountains. Since I visited in summertime I cannot verify whether it is really dangerous or not, but you'd better keep you eyes open! ;p
Take a fly net or go insane!
martin_nl Says:
As soon as we left the NSW coast to go inland to Canberra we noticed all the horrible flies. They fly into your eyes, nose, mouth and ears! From Canberra to Cooma, the entrance to the Snowy Mountains it got even worse so we walked into an outdoor shop to see whether they...
Coolamine Homestead
iandsmith Says:
We departed after a brief photographic session and stopped en route to Yarrangobilly Caves at Coolamine Homestead, a rejuvenated collection of buildings dating from the late 19th century when this place was used for grazing, especially in summer. Newspaper clippings on one...
Blue Waterholes
iandsmith Says:
At the Snowy Mountains Highway intersection we headed west and then turned off onto Long Plain Road for 15kms and then another 8 kilometres on more dirt that I won’t ever bother with again to reach Blue Waterholes. It was a spot I’d wanted to return to in order to visit a...
All along the Illawong Track - continued
iandsmith Says:
Other trekkers came and went as we grafted our way along the narrow trail past snow gums until, at times, the trail itself was indiscernible with fresh summer shrub branches overgrowing its meandering ways yet somehow you knew where it went and moved on, stumbling...
All along the Illawong
iandsmith Says:
After a time we pushed on down the mountains, past Spencer’s Creek and on to Guthega, stopping while someone chose to shoot a watercourse at Pipers Creek en route. Said person realised when Guthega carpark was reached they had left their new 10-20mm lens behind which...
Dead Horse Gap continued
iandsmith Says:
Here and there shadows were cast eerily across the tussock grass while Spanish Moss clung precariously to some holes in the dead branches; an occasional fern cluster sheltered at the base of rock groups and here and there a trickle filtered its way to the master stream...
Dead Horse Gap track
iandsmith Says:
DEAD HORSE, DEAD TREES, DEAD ROCKS, IS THERE LIFE UP HERE?It was amazing how dog tired we were after each day and yet, in the morning, we felt revived enough to attack yet another walk. This time it was to be Dead Horse Gap from Crackenback and then down Thredbo Creek back...
Blue Lake continued
iandsmith Says:
It was, on recollection, one of the truly great places I have seen in Australia, up alongside Lake Judd, Karijini and Carnarvon Gorge. Its aura and mystique will live with me forever.As we were leaving a couple came into view. First the lady, who was from Russia, then the...
Blue Lake continued
iandsmith Says:
In ages past the aborigines, though their tribal groups didn’t intermingle in the valleys below, joined together on the high plains in summer to feast upon this food bonanza. These days the moths carry traces of arsenic upon them from the crop spraying hundreds of kilometres...
Blue Lake
iandsmith Says:
There was a yearning inside me. I had missed the walk a couple of years before and it gnawed at me. Pictures of Blue Lake that others had taken were so enticing; now, today, it was my turn. Christmas Day 2012 -We’d had such a hard time of it the day before that, by mutual...
Thredbo Creek walk part three
iandsmith Says:
The flora was abundant but the legacy of the 2003 bushfires was everywhere. Dead limbs still reached for the sky, slowly being overtaken by new growth but it had some way to go.I finished opposite the carpark and tried thumbing a lift back, striking it lucky at the fifth...
Thredbo Creek walk part two
iandsmith Says:
Still, the weather was the main thing to keep one’s eye on. Clouds were banking up on the horizon and it actually spat rain about three times but never dumped thank goodness.Towards the top of the 4 km track it crosses the river a few times, on well made bridges except for...
The Thredbo experience
iandsmith Says:
It all started so well. There I was, wallet in hand, ready to buy an annual pass and, what did I hear? “If you have a pension card it’s free to get into the Snowy Mountains NP.” A wave of euphoria came over me. I was thinking skiing on the cheap, how good would that be, but,...
Waterfall walk - part one
iandsmith Says:
After lunch I was let off the leash to do the Waterfall Walk. It was getting a trifle warmer because we had descended a few hundred metres and much of this walk was protected from the wind so there was no respite there. Still, it was a whole lot cooler than on the coast.I...
Waterfall Walk - part three
iandsmith Says:
I started making up time on the way back but that got thwarted when I left my Christmas sunnies behind while changing lens on the camera. I managed to retrieve them but was sweating when I did so, perhaps more at the thought that I may have lost them than pure physical...
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